Question

I’m trying to setup some caching on my site and am having troubles with getting a cache sweeper working. I followed the Railscast but when I try to load a page with the model, I’m getting an error. Here’s what I’ve done thus far:

1.) Added the app/sweepers directory and put a basic sweeper in it:

class TeamMemberSweeper < ActionController::Caching::Sweeper   observe TeamMember    def after_create(team_member)     expire_nav_menus   end    def after_destroy(team_member)     expire_nav_menus   end    private    def expire_nav_menus(athlete_id)     expire_fragment(...)   end end 

2.) Add the following line to the TeamMember model:

cache_sweeper :team_member_sweeper, :only => [:create, :destroy] 

3.) Added the following line to config/environment.rb and restarted my server:

config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/sweepers ) 

At this point, whenever I access the TeamMember model I get the following error:

undefined method `cache_sweeper' for #<Class:0x23128cc> 

What I missing to get this working?

Answer 1

I think because the

‘cache_sweeper :team_member_sweeper, :only => [:create, :destroy]’

Should go in the controllers you want to expire in and not the model.

I’ve ran into similar problems because I specifically WANT to expire from the model, but apparently that’s not possible or very hard to do in Rails.